http://sourceforge.net/p/sipe/bugs/285/ Reproducible: Always
pidgin-sipe-9999.ebuild added to bug #558786 fixes the issue while waiting for a new release.
This is fixed upstream, they are also prepping a new release. We will package it when available.
looks like 1.20 is out [1], will bump this evening. 1. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sipe/files/sipe/pidgin-sipe-1.20.0/
In git now. Sync in a while. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6733268d9bade727e278ec6f7caca7fc522b7773